Baroque Music
An instrumental work that features a solo instrument with little to no accompaniment
What is a Sonata?
The undisputed most infamous composer of the Baroque period known for his contrapuntal techniques and for his fugues
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This performing group of instrumentalist emerged during the Baroque Period
What is Orchestra?
The genre of music that denotes...religiousness
What is Sacred music?
A term meaning extravagant or highly decorated
What is Baroque?
This famous oratorio, which features the famous "Hallelujah Chorus" has been performed every Christmas since it's inception and is still performed every year to this day.
What is Handel's Messiah?
Antonio Vivaldi's famous four movement orchestral work, each representing a significant time of year.
What is The Four Seasons?
Woodwind, Brass, String, and Percussion
What are the Orchestra Families?
A large-scale musical work for orchestra and voices, typically a narrative on a religious theme.
What is an Oratorio?
Instrumental focus, musical ornamentation and the divination of choral parts into 4 main voices
What are changes that developed during the Baroque Period?
A contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
What is a Fugue?
A famous Baroque composer known for writing the Hallelujah Chorus in his Messiah Oratorio
Who is George Frideric Handel?
A small orchestra with only strings.
What is a String Orchestra?
Non-Religious music
What is secular music?
The city that was the center of expansion of Baroque Music throughout Europe.
What is Venice?
A sacred or secular medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.
What is a Cantata?
One of Bach's famous fugues otherwise known as "Little Fugue"
What is Fugue in G Minor?
A large classical orchestra, including string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments.
What is a Symphony Orchestra?
A famous baroque composer known for his devotion to faith and attributed all of his contributed all of his musical compositions as prayers to God.
The four orchestral musical families
A musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.
What is a Concerto?
The art or technique of setting, writing, or playing a melody or melodies in conjunction or counter-movement with another, according to fixed rules, and used by various Baroque Composers.
What is Counterpoint?
A small orchestra usually with one player per part.
What is a Chamber Orchestra?
Carl Off's epic opener in his famous secular cantata Carmina Barana
O' Fortuna
The four voice parts that developed in choral music during the Baroque Period
What are Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass